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1) Bill Moggridge defines design as a collaborative process by forming and working a group which consists of various individuals and their own ideas, values and belief and experiences which provide different views of the same situation. Such team work and interactions provides a team with diversity in their work and helps better development as a whole. Using the strengths of some and covering the weakness of others. Such works provides with a universal solution and enables groups to work in a more space of mind.

One example is the device for nose, throat and ear surgery in which designers included surgeons in the research process. In this example the surgeons played a more interactive role in which they helped redesign the tools needed to perform their job. Thus it aids in process of the feeling of accomplishment and the feeling of being part of the project. This collaborative process resulted in a more efficient output performed by the surgeons.

Another is the American Red Cross donor program. In this project blood donors were included in the research process by making a public profile for each individual with their photograph, and personal story. This encouraged others to donate blood and share their personal stories. The purpose of this process is to humanize the donation process, and provide acknowledgement to the donors.

2) The Bloomberg Terminal Concept is a collaborative design, which involves people in the design. The information gathered is by expert users of the previous products and years of research in the financial and computing sector. This enabled them to create an idea to help the users work more efficiently.

The layout is two fold hence enabling users to multi task and provide an overall information at one go. This decreases the number of inconvenience and fatigue caused by other programs. Also the users can enable their information and work on it side by side with the two fold concept.

IDEO as a result went through years of reasearch in the financial and computing sectors of bloomberg and various other institution in order to produce something that would help such users or they designed it for the people. Hence a lot of brainstorming minds and collaboration of peoples knowledge has been embeded in the software and the way it runs creating a whole new workspace and virtual work desk on which all information is present to access and analyze or process in a colaborated an simple way.

Bloomberg Terminal Concept for Portfolio Magazine. < [] >. Feb 23, 2011